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Space limitations on your PC can prevent you from running the apps and games you want. Here are the best apps to free up your storage. While the base amount of storage for Windows 10 devices is on the rise, it’s still easy to fill up a device. Video files, photos, games, and apps can take up a lot of space very quickly. This roundup is of the best apps to help you free up storage space on your PC. We also have an article that goes more into depth on how to do a disc cleanup, how to use the Settings app and Control Panel to free up space and do more advanced operations to clean up your PC storage. Best apps to free up storage on Windows 10

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With so many laptops being sold with tiny ssd hard drives this info can be very useful. After just a couple of updates for Windows 10 you can find your hard drive full very quick.

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Microsoft’s latest feature update for Windows 10 doesn’t paint a very good picture for Windows as a Service, so is it time to dial things back a bit? Windows as a Service allows Microsoft to update Windows 10 on a regular basis with patches, security updates, and indeed new features. These new features arrive in the form of “major updates” that Microsoft has committed to releasing twice a year. While two major updates a year allows Microsoft to innovate and get new features out faster, it also causes a lot of headaches for the end-user. Microsoft’s latest feature update for Windows 10, known as the April 2018 update, has proven exceptionally problematic for a lot of users. Users across the web have been struggling with issues around dedicated GPUs, Bluetooth connectivity, notifications that wrongly alert the user of low storage, and a whole lot more. Are two Windows 10 updates a year doing more to hurt users than help them?

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Learning what Cortana can do and what’s coming next is the classic discovery problem.

Microsoft’s biggest problem around its Cortana digital assistant is perception. The Siri and Google Now competitor has a rich feature set, and while the focus is shifting from pure app-like experience to a more nuanced smart-OS, there’s a lot of potential.

One area that is not great for Cortana — besides restricted regional availability — is knowing what Cortana can and cannot do, or more specifically, if any new features have been added. Amazon has proven that this problem is solvable, without much effort.

Microsoft has been hard at it lately rolling out all kinds of changes, updates, feature editions, etc. After the last two Windows 10 updates, I am not excited at all about any new features. I would prefer that they work on the bugs that are already within Windows 10 or even better yet they could scrap it completely and go back to Windows 7 until they figure it out.

If your PC keeps connecting to the wrong Wi-Fi network automatically, in this guide, we’ll show you the steps to change their priority to always try to connect to the preferred network first. On Windows 10, when the Wi-Fi adapter is enabled on your device, it’ll connect to only one particular network automatically, even if you have multiple connections saved on your computer, and those networks are in range. The selection process to which wireless network you’ll be connected is based on the priority system, which is assigned to each connection. However, if your device keeps connecting to the least preferable wireless network automatically, on Windows 10, you can change the priority order of each connection to make sure that your device always hooks to the preferred access point first. In this Windows 10 guide, we’ll walk you through the steps to change the priority order of Wi-Fi network connections using the modern user interface and command line allowing your device to always co How to change Wi-Fi network connections priority order on Windows 10

The file names your camera and phone automatically generate are terrible, here are the best ways to get your files organized on Windows 10. If you’ve ever taken a bunch of photos and then gone to edit them on your PC, you’ve experienced having to sort through the generic file name that’s generated by your phone or camera. Bulk renaming files is the easiest way to organize these systematically. Bulk file naming isn’t just for photos either. Some apps are for organizing episodes of a television show or any group of files that you’d like. Here are the best tools to organize all of your files. Best apps to bulk rename files on Windows 10